I have begun writing 100 blogs in secret, using TextEdit. After they are all finished, I will post them all at once, and you will not know what hit you! You probably won't be able to read them all! You will start to read them, maybe, but after the fifth or so, you will get tired of reading them and you will stop! I'm thinking they'll be finished in ten days, but I could be wrong. They will all be around 400 to 500 words. I have just checked, and that is, like, the length of a novella. If I shoot for 160 blogs or so, that's more like a novel novel. But that would take longer than 10 days!

Oh yeah, I forgot why I started this post. I am taking suggestions for what the folder on my computer with all the secret TextEdit blogs should be called.

In the meantime, listen to this:

JENNY AND I ARE GOING TO GO BUY BOOKS BY TAO LIN.

LISTEN TO THIS SONG IN THE MEANTIME:

Growing up, I took piano lessons. I had little to no natural talent, but I practiced lots and became, for a time, good. I loved Debussy. Playing Debussy refined my sensitivity and judgment to register an emotional grain more subtle than I would have otherwise appreciated. Once, I was in a library, reading a book about Debussy. When asked what his favorite virtue was, he said, "Pride". That had an effect on me.

A rushed poem in a rushed moment.

As I rush to complete a paper on time,
something outside catches my eye, distracting me.
Pink petals float on the wind, passing my window,
reminding me of snowflakes that used to do the same.
Spring and Winter drift by on streams of air,
as I rush to finish papers on time.